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The following program is produced
by Marsh community television.

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My name is Kim career I am the coordinator
here at the Northwood County Historical

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Society and here standing in
front of the governor William H.

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OPEN HOUSE the open family moved to Marshall
area in eighteen seventy eight and the

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house was built in eight hundred eighty
initially they lived in the upper story of

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the album store which was located on the
corner of Second Street and Central after

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they moved into the house the story that
they lived in in the store became the

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Department for all of the
clothing. The majority of the up

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a manufacturing company is located kitty
corner from this house where the wind

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burner shoe factory is right now and maybe
that is why they chose to build here

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because it was in I Shot of the whole
manufacturing company I'd like to invite you

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on a tour of the governor William H.

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Of M house and you'll hear more about his
family the house and as well see some of

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the collection at the Northwich
County Historical Society has.

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Our first stop on this tour is the parlor
and when you come in here we do have the

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pictures available of family to give you

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a little more background on who they
were William Henry up on was born in

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Westminster Massachusetts and he was the
youngest of about eight kids. When he was

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quite young he and his family actually moved
to Niles Michigan and in one thousand

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nine hundred fifty three his father passed
away in shortly thereafter he and his

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mom ended up moving to Racine Wisconsin and
that is where he spent the majority of

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his childhood is hard to marry Kelly
also came from out east she her family

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came from Cleveland Ohio and they too
made their way over to Racine in eight

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hundred sixty one The Civil War broke out
and William joined through the Bell City

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rifles as one of the first recruits and
spent his time in camp around all as they

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prepared and then they ended up in the first
battle of Bull Run He was wounded his

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family thought he was dead because
his commanding officer sent

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a note back saying that he was with him
when William was shot and he believed that

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he was dead so the family had

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a funeral for him at that particular
time he was actually in Libby Prison in

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Richmond Virginia after his paroled he
did go back north and was introduced to

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President Lincoln and Lincoln was so
impressed with young Mr Upham that he

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appointed him at large to West Point
Academy in eight hundred sixty six he

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graduated with honors as second lieutenant
and one of the first things he ended up

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doing was watching over Jefferson Davis
when Davis was in prison in eight hundred

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sixty seven he married Mary in eight
hundred seventy eight the uplands moved to

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Marsh Hill and as we
mentioned before they had

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a store on the second and Central and later.
In one thousand nine hundred eighty S.

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House was built initially there were all
rooms were filled up arms had two adopted

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girls but they also had

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a couple of Mary's relatives living with
them at the time. When the fire started in

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one thousand nine hundred seventy and
he was the mayor of Marshfield and

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unfortunately it started in his manufacturing
company he lost everything they

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believe it was

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a spark from one of the locomotives that
had come in off the spur and due to the

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weather conditions and the dryness of the
fire took out not only his industry but

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as many know it took out all of Marshfield
the business district Mr Upham employed

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many people within the Marshfield
area and he knew he had

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a major decision to make was he going to
rebuild was he going to pack it up and

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knowing him he was not going to do that
he told the folks that on the morning of

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the next day he would have his decision
made and he did that by raising the

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American flag and

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a flag pole which was across the road
in an area that did not get burned to

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indicate that he would rebuild

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a lot of people aren't aware
that the American fleg held

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a lot of import for Mr when he was paroled
back to the north having spent about six

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seven months in Confederate
prison he was on

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a ship that took him back into the Washington
area and one of the first things he

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saw was the flag and
it became very much of

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a symbol of freedom for him and second
starts and I think that's maybe why he chose

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to raise the flag to indicate that he was
rebuilding Marshfield the family that Mr

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up on me had actually had

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a couple of different families the first
one as we mentioned was Miri and his two

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girls Elsie and Caroline Elsie was married
to a man who actually worked for the up

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a manufacturing company and Caroline ended
up getting married when Mr. Was governor

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she married to Phil Sawyer of the Osh Kosh
Sawyer after Mr up and was involved with

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the rebuilding of the fire he was later
nominated eight hundred ninety four to

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become Wisconsin's eighteenth governor he
served for two years from eight hundred

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ninety five to eight hundred ninety seven
and following that he decided to years

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was enough in politics he wanted to get
back to Marshfield and get back into his

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businesses which was probably his
first love he and Mary moved back

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and life went on kind of as usual but
then in one nine hundred twelve quite

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a number of years later Mary passed away
she was sixty nine years old and she had

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congestive heart failure and pneumonia
Mr was used to actually spending winters

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down in Florida by this time and so he had

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a yacht built in Dip your Wisconsin because
he didn't want to spend the money in

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hotels all the time he got as far as North
Carolina and stories say that there was

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some sort of squall that
forced him to harbor there for

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a little bit of time he ended up staying
with some friends and there he met his

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second wife Grace Grace was living with
her sister and brother in law at the time

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and when Mr Upham came along and was showing
some interest in her she she rather

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liked that she was almost thirty years
old and didn't have any prospects for

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marriage and Mr Upham started it expressing
some interest I think she thought this

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was maybe

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a good thing. Mr Upham continued on his
yacht trip and corresponded with grace but

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by nineteen fourteen when he was ending
his trip and he decided to let his family

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then know that he was getting married. Grace
and he did get married in one thousand

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nine hundred fifteen and she moved here and
shortly afterwards William Jr was born

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he was. Born in one nine hundred sixteen.
Mr when he was on his yacht ship had just

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turned seventy three years old by the time
that William was born he was could have

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been his grandfather but he
was very excited to have

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a son with engineer in one nine hundred
twenty one his brother Frederick was born

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and unfortunately he didn't know his dad
quite as well as William Jr did in one

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nine hundred twenty four William SR passed
away so he was maybe about three or four

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years old when his dad
died. Grace did remarry

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a man named Mr Hamm bright
and he had a son through

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a prior marriage and when he met Grace
in one nine hundred twenty five they had

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a little girl after their marriage name
Lateesha and she was born in one thousand

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twenty six Mr Hammer it passed away in one
thousand nine hundred four Greece passed

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away in one thousand nine hundred seventy
five and the North County Historical

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Society purchased the house for

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a couple of reasons one was to remember
the legacy of Mr and the other one was to

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have

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a home where the historical society could
be and to house some of its historical

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collection. There are two remaining members
from the immediate family William Jr

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passed away in two thousand and nine but
Frederick is still alive he is living out

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in Colorado and he is turning ninety four
this year the other person who is still

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alive is Lateesha and she is in her
eighty's and is living in Michigan and she

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still I believe has

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a family that is still in the marsh area
now that you know about the the family we

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would like to share about the house the
parlor we're standing right now was more of

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a formal setting where people would come
to visit they might be set sitting here

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and. Maybe serve tea or just visiting It's

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a little more fancy than the rest of the
house as we go into the library of see

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that it's not quite as formal and it was
maybe a place for family would relax

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a little bit more. Were in the
library and as I mentioned it's

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a little more or less formal in this
particular season we do have an exhibit that

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you'll you'll see changes once or twice

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a year and this one is the barbers of
Marshfield and it's up through the end of

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July and maybe the beginning of August.
As you come through here you'll notice

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a couple of different things one is the
picture of Mr open behind me and that is

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probably when he was governor. We
do have other artifacts in this

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room and some of which belonged to Mr up
on one is the the lithograph of the first

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reading of the Emancipation
Proclamation years ago there was

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a rumor that it was given to Mr Upham by
Mr Lincoln but that can't be true because

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by the time that the lithograph was made
from the painting Unfortunately Mr Lincoln

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was already dead. On this floor we do try
to keep as much of the up and family

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furnishing us in place as possible but we
do have some things that are part of the

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historical collection for the
Historical Society. We have

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a harp which was actually an escapee of
the Chicago Fire which was donated to the

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historical society in the
name nine hundred ninety S.

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We also have

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a roll top desk over here which it was
donated to us and that is an Eastlake piece

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but which is not part of the the family but
does date to the late one thousand nine

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hundred surly nine thousand nine
hundred. Here in the dining room we have

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a lot of manufactured furniture and
there are some pieces that are not but

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a lot of it was made specifically for the
house the room itself was expanded in

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eight hundred ninety about ten years after
the house was built and we know this

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because Mary up on me had written in her
journal that she couldn't get wait to she

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could not wait to get back to the house to
see the renovation the had been done to

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the dining room one of the things that I
found interesting with the family table

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and chairs is the fact that it's just very
homey not over the top not anything too

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fancy but was useful for every
day as well as entertaining and

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part of the the the neat thing about this
is we have Mr Uphams furniture but we now

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know only do we have Mr Uphams
furniture in. This room but we have

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a little bit of handiwork from his second
wife Grace as well and the pads on the

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furniture and the chairs have been you
know pointed by her and each one has

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a little bit of

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a different pattern to it. In this part
of the room is what we believe to have

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been

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a part of the original kitchen the kitchen
that exists right now is actually an expansion

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that had taken place in the
late one nine hundred twenty S.

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But we part of the reason why I believe
this is part of the original kitchen is

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because of this oven this warmer it is
something that would have been used to keep

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food warm sits right on top of the radiator
and even in the winter if you stick

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your hand in there you can feel it gets
warm inside and part of the reason this may

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have been is because the original kitchen
itself would have been downstairs the we

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have still in C two the cast iron stove
that was used and how this was all

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configured are not exactly sure because
we don't have pictures to help us

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understand the history but when eight eight
hundred ninety when the dining room had

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been expanded that is also when this room
had been expanded and it overlooks the

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what is now the Rose Garden. My name's Tom
Pathak I'm the yard chair for the North

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Wood County Historical Society at the Upper
House and today we have some shots of

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the historical heritage Rose Garden
this Rose Garden was started

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in one thousand nine
hundred with an idea from

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a photograph that we saw in our archives
of Mrs Upham. With an arbor of roses

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sitting behind her so what we decided to
do back then in one nine hundred ninety

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was look for somebody like myself who is

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a master consulting with Syrian the
American road society to start

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a rose garden here what we originally saw
was hybrid tea roses growing in UP and

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yard and right away we deferred to the
historical significance of the yard in the

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house so they didn't have very good
success with the hybrid tea roses because

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they're not hardy Second of all I I thought
of an idea of just getting historical

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roses in the yard to match the preservation
of the North Wood County Historical

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Society. We started this Rose Garden
in one nine hundred ninety in a took

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a three year project for completion the
back yard was actually one and they have to

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two feet too low with retaining water
toward the back end of the arbor So what we

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had to have done is take dump trucks of
topsoil and load the backyard with good

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topsoil which is credited to why the roses
are growing so well this arbor is used

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quite

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a bit by visitors that come to the Rose
Garden were open on Wednesday and Saturday

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afternoons in like I said before the peak
times is June fifth about fifteen through

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July first you might find

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a few roses growing intermittently throughout
the year there's no charge to visit

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our outside at the Open House Rose
Garden whatsoever. They've had to take

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a lot of volunteer help as far as maintaining
the yard and some of our members in

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the historical society do that and help
me out doing that volunteer ism is very

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very important in Marshfield with your
volunteer efforts you can actually grow on

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to

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a hobby that I started here to when they
asked me as one roses my yard was very very

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small so all of a sudden things are
starting to get together while I had

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a small yard when I was always kind.
And I had two hundred roses on

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a half acre and I needed
some more room to make

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a real big card so here we go day
perfect match for about being

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a volunteer and helping the community
in Marshfield out. There are

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a lot of people that are credited for
starting this rose garden it's like I said it

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took

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a three year project and they're listed
here on the board and they're in Branson

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the reason they're in bronze is because
they should be remained as far as helpers

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and volunteers for a very
very long time so it's

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a people can see how much effort it took
to really get this garden started for

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those people that would
like garden tours we have

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a garden tour buses coming from all parts
of the state of Wisconsin and those tours

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are arranged in groups if you want to help
out and learn more about growing roses

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you can just contact the Northwood County

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a story called society at the open house
at three eight seven three three two two

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and we're not open every day but on Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons you always

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find somebody here giving tours thank you
we're standing in the kitchen and the

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area where I am right now is the second
half of the area we had just walked out of

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and would have been an extension of the
original kitchen. When I look in this

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direction we see the kitchen that was
changed in the one nine hundred twenty S.

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Originally off of the back
of this room would have been

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a nice house but in the late
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When they wanted to expand the kitchen
that was removed and the kitchen was made

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a bit bigger. Over here we've got the door
that goes down to the basement which is

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where those who are making the food would
have to come up every day that they were

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making the food and then the truck get
into the dining room itself some of the

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furniture in here the the stove in the
sink. Goes back to the late eighteenth

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twenty's nineteenth. And we also have some

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a different artifacts in here which show
different parts of what life could have

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been like in the late one thousand nine
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and they're all kind of integrated
within the room. Baxter case is

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a little bit different from the front
staircase it's not quite as fancy and

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oftentimes in houses such as this they would
say that would be where the family or

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the servants would use. Which is very true
when you come into the front staircase

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you can see it has a lot more of

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a while factor more fancy makes you go wow
when you walk into the house not so much

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back staircase. I mentioned the kitchen
being expanded and when they did

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that they added on

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a back bedroom which later became William
Junior's room and from there next to it

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there was also

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a bathroom and then back over here was
Frederick's room we're standing in

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Frederick's your room and the furniture
that is in here right now is up on

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manufactured furniture it's not original
to the house but it was donated to the

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historical society from Dr and Francis
Cruz we believe that the style

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was around in the early one thousand nine
hundred so both nineteen fifteen or so

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you'll see similar style of furniture
and Mary's we get there and the family

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history said that she appreciated this
specific style of furniture when they had

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gone on

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a European tour and asked Mr Upham to
replicate it they had been in European area

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about one thousand seven and she passed
away in one nine hundred twelve so the

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history cording to what we have
heard is is true that gives us

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a window of understanding when the style
of furniture would have been manufactured

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. We call this the community room is and
that is because we have various aspects of

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Marshfield an area history it is the one
part of the house that is the most museum

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esque and there are different parts of
this wall is our military wall and we

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don't go into the detail
of it because there is

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a very fine exhibit that is in the basement
of the library called lest we forget

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and we ask you to go see that but we do
have some things highlighted here one is

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Willard Purdy he was

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a sergeant during World War one who
was killed when he saved his men from

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a grenade he had been holding on to three
different grenades realize one of them

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had

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a pin missing and upon seeing that there was
no way to get rid of it safely told his

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men to leave to run and he took the
full explosion and we also have

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a scan of the his brother's letter that
his name is Chester wrote to their mom

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saying what had happened and so that is
sitting right beside Mr Purdy whose picture

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as well one of the other things that
we have in this room is Mr Bombs.

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Commissioned for first lieutenant that he
received an eight hundred sixty nine. As

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a reminder he was commissioned in March
of that year and then by August of that

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year he had resigned from the army
altogether. Within also within this

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room we have some of the artifacts that
came from the original one of the original

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clinics as as well as
other things like doctors

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registrations saying who had diptheria
when and some some really neat reading

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information we've got artifacts on
the brewery company bottles kegs

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that sort of thing from some. Marshfield
brewery. There are some from old

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pharmaceuticals from when the rice rest
pharmacy we went out of business they had

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found some of the bottles and things in
their basement so they thought it would be

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a great idea to donate that to the
historical society give some really good

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information we also have

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a little nods to the Native Americans it's
actually an exhibit that is in process

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right next to the community room is what
we call the toy room both of these rooms

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at one time had been multipurpose. Had
her nursery in the bigger part of

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the room at one time and the person who was
helping to take care of her was in what

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we call the toy room. We have toys from
the collection different things from the

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doll house that was made out of scraps
of lumber from the furniture factory we

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believe it was initially put together for
the two daughters adopted girls that

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Marion William had and it was done by

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a foreman of the furniture
factory we also have

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a toy cast iron stove there is baby
buggies and dolls and just different

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things that kids would play with all
throughout the different stages of history in

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Marshfield we also have some pictures of
the kids William and Frederick and their

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sister Leticia So there's

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a lot of different things going on in the
next we come into the governor's bedroom

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in eight hundred eighty when the house was
first built is quite common for the Mr

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and Mrs rooms to be separate so initially
this would have been Mr Uphams room he

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did have furniture that he made firm soft
out of his manufacturing company and that

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was here later when the house was sold
the family took different parts of the

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furniture and about

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a year ago we did get back donated back
to us. The furniture that will come back

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here that did belong to Mr up on the three
pieces the two marble tops in this bed

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are not really

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a part of Marshfield history or the up
in history but it is period piece. We

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also have another picture of Mr Up woman
here as well as his governor certificate

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joining the governor's room is what we
call Mary's room and as I mentioned the

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tombs are separate but after a while
probably these two rooms were used as

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a suite for itself connected to one
bathroom the furniture and here was Mary's

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furniture and we have
what we think is probably

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a pretty complete set of what was offered
for this particular style the exception

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to that would be the smear and
the table under it which is

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a. Picture in the mirror is

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a picture of Letty when she was ten years
old she inherited this room one of the

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things I like to point out on the tour is
this Marshfield Times paper which was out

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when Mary Upham had
passed away it features

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a picture of her and two of her grandchildren
and what is interesting is that the

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paper takes up the art of the what was
written about her takes up all the way to

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right here so instead of just

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a little obituary Perry got almost the whole
front page and one of the things that

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strikes me about this is she was
known as Mary in the community.

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This part of the house is our office in
archives right now initially it would have

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been Mr UP ARMS probably personal
office he did have an office which was

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a separate business office across the road
from his manufacturing company but this

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would have been maybe

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a place or he could of had his own personal
business later on it became Grace's

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bedroom and when she was older she was not
able to navigate the stairs so well so

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the bedroom was moved down into these two
rooms and then later when the Historical

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Society purchased the house
it did become part of

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a tour area and then was transitioned
over into the office in archives and

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archives have things that have been given
to us we don't have the ability to go out

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searching for information but people donate
information to us and so these standing

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files have different things
in it categorized A to Z.

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So whether you're looking for something.
Business or person we may have it

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but sometimes I don't know what's here until
I actually go looking for it so that's

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one of the things that's available. The
other things that we have are photo

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archives and that is done in such a way
that if you're again interested in

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a subject

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a person can go into the indices and
seek out the specific artifact number

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for each of the photographs and find
it for you one of the things that the

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historical society can really benefit
from are volunteers and we have all

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kinds of things available whether you like
to work in the yards whether you like to

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work in the archives some do some of the
doing some of the behind the scenes sorts

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of things giving

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a tour and we have all different kinds of
things available and we could really use

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you if you would like to help us out.
We'd like to invite you for two hours

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here at the governor William Upham House
tour times are Wednesdays and Saturdays

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from one thirty until four office hours
are Wednesdays from twelve until four and

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Thursdays from nine until one if you
would like also group opportunities are

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through special appointment you can call
us at the number listed on our website

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which is up on mansion dot com or you
can call us at the number provided.